Khaled al-Asiri

Khaled al-Asiri (-7 June 2016), also known as Abdul Khaled, al-Siri, The Doctor, and The Teacher was an Islamic State militant.

Biography
Khaled al-Asiri was born in Saudi Arabia to a Sunni Muslim family, and he was the older brother of Jamal al-Asiri. al-Asiri became a radical Islamist involved with jihadist groups in Saudi Arabia, and his network had loose ties to the Islamic State. al-Asiri was responsible for countless jihadi attacks, including an April 2016 attack on a mall in the Northern Borders Province that killed 60 people, which he sent his 12-year-old brother Amir to carry out. al-Asiri was believed to have been killed in a drone strike in late May 2016, but he survived the attack, and he filmed the United States embassy in Riyadh in preparation for an attack. His brother Jamal gave the CIA his location for the drone strike, and he hid at the embassy, as his wife, children, and family were now in danger because Khaled survived.

2016 Riyadh embassy siege
On 7 June 2016, Khaled al-Asiri waited outside of the embassy on a bench and signalled for Abdulkarim Barakat to drive an explosives-laden van into the gate of the embassy. Royal Saudi guards were unable to stop Barakat, and Barakat was shot dead only when he reached the gate, detonating the explosives as he died. al-Asiri and the attackers proceeded to open fire with AK-47s and AK-74us at the guards while chanting "Allahu akbar" and moving into the embassy. al-Asiri had his men fan out and search for information on the whereabouts of his brother, even making a threat to his brother and the embassy personnel while looking at a CCTV camera.